Book reviews: How To Survive a Horror Movie and Microservices AntiPatterns

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+title = "How To Survive A Horror Movie - Seth Grahame-Smith"
+date = 2020-03-06
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+tags = ["books", "reviews", "movies", "horror", "seth grahame-smith"]
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+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293217.How_to_Survive_a_Horror_Movie):
+From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic
+hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror
+Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films.
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+Honestly, I'm not sure who this book is targeted at.
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+At first, I thought it would examine all the clichés on horror movies that
+made the hero survive everything till the end. But the narration style
+sometimes puts you as just someone living in the same world, sometimes it puts
+you as the protagonist, sometimes you can engineer your way around every
+problem, sometimes you have to force the screenwriter to do something (so you
+don't actually _do_ whatever you need to do, you force someone else to make
+you do something), sometimes you force the "movie" to move faster without the
+screenwriter support... It is a huge hodgepodge of ways, and no consistency
+between them.
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+To be fair, I'm not a fan of horror movies (the book came from a Humble Bundle
+pack) so I may appear a bit hard on the author, but still...

content/reviews/books/microservices-antipatterns-and-pitfalls.md

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+title = " Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls - Mark Richards"
+date = 2020-03-08
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+tags = ["books", "reviews", "microservices", "antipatterns", "pitfalls", "mark richards"]
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+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31291348-microservices-antipatterns-and-pitfalls):
+Remember when service-oriented architecture (SOA) was all the rage? Companies
+jumped in before fully understanding SOA’s advantages and disadvantages, and
+struggled to make this complex architecture work. Today, we’re poised to
+repeat this same experience with microservices—only this time we’re prepared.
+With this concise ebook, author Mark Richards walks you through the ten most
+common microservice anti-patterns and pitfalls, and provides solutions for
+avoiding them.
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+Not a book per se, but a paper about the tendencies that lead to microservices
+to fail. If this was a book, I think I'd give it less stars, but since it is
+just a short paper, it feels alright -- for a book, longer content and how to
+implement the corrects would be nicer.
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+In the end, for people starting with microservices, it is a good pointer for
+"do not do that"; for people working with microservices for awhile, it's quite
+a "I did that already" checklist.